It is good, as Mike points out, make a plan for the future; is easier to romove a small rock with certain coral than having to take out a big rock with different corals on it because you just want to remove one type of coral.

Gsp , Xenia , confine them in separate rocks.
Vargas cespitularia, blasto, Mohawk zoa, radio active green eye zoa, Miami hurricane chalice , most Cloves , green pociliopora/birdnest all are easy and available in excess from one or other club members . I can give you at least three of the above mentioned corals

Gsp , Xenia , confine them in separate rocks.
Vargas cespitularia, blasto, Mohawk zoa, radio active green eye zoa, Miami hurricane chalice , most Cloves , green pociliopora/birdnest all are easy and available in excess from one or other club members . I can give you at least three of the above mentioned corals

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Haha I don't know most of these names, have to google imagines to see what those even are. But sure I would gladly have any you can donate.

How big and old is your tank. If your nitrogen cycle has already completed then probably start with GSP.
Share details about your setup, things like light, flow etc. They are critical to determine what type of coral you can keep.

20 gal Nuvo tank.
Nanobox dual plus m
Reactor on back with some macroalgae I got from a store.
Flow I don't know right now(out of town for New Years) but I got a power head I put on the left side of the tank so it can circulate the back.

Tank was started three weeks ago, zero ammonia, zero nitrite, nitrate was 7 last time I checked (couple days ago) cal/mag were in what I believe to be normal rangers (don't remember it off top of my head) I do 10% change outs every week.

I bought a few corals from a local store to start off. They seem to be doing fine and waving in the water.

I have some pictures I can share of my set up. Not that good at photoing yet so everything seems super blue.

I love the light. But honestly don't know what strength each color should be set to, so I have it set to what it came as. Seems 'fine' because throughout the day they slowly go up and back down over a 12 hour cycle.

Are you sure you want to start him off with gsp? A lot of reefers consider gsp more of a weed. It can become invasive if you don’t keep it contained and managed.

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Its not a pain if its contained in a rock, but yeah agree that it can be invasive. I would not recommend putting it in main island of the rockscape. The good thing is, once he is at my place he can take a look at different things and make a choice, I have orange digitata to grandis , that i can trim down. three, four different type of challice as well,

Completely agree with tankguy. Anything easy, is easy for a good reason, they'll become a PITA.

The best looking while easy (hard to kill) would probably be a toadstool coral. Softy so not much light is required. Haven't done a water change in 1+ year and its still going. Don't follow in my footsteps though!